[1484] in APO Printshop
Print shop training and mailing lists
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Tue Mar 7 15:55:59 2006
To: ithron@MIT.EDU
cc: apo-printshop-journeyman@MIT.EDU, vtarasov@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:55:47 -0500
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
Hey Rachel,
Since you expressed interest in the press coming back from last weekend's
project, I added you to the list apo-printshop-wants-training, which is
(amazingly enough) the list of people who'd like to be trained to use the
press. That list gets all of the mail sent to apo-printshop, so you'll
hear about any jobs that groups would like us to print and also offers
from journeymen to train new press operators (journeymen are the brothers
who are qualified to train new people... I'm working very slowly on becoming
one).
The gist of the way you become a press operator is this:
Step 1) You go through a training run. During the training run, a journeyman
(usually Len these days, and I often come to help out and observe) shows
you all of the common equipment in the shop, works with you on setting
a block of type, teaches you how to safely operate the press, and you
print a small (few hundred impressions) job with them. No previous
knowledge is assumed.
The training run can average somewhere around 8 hours, so it's usually
either most of a weekend day, or broken up into two ~4 hour blocks, whichever
is convenient for you.
Step 2) You go through a qualifying run. It's sort of similar to a training
run, except that you don't need to be taught most things, you're expected
to do a little bit of typesetting yourself, and in general, the journeyman
is there to help if needed, but largely to make sure that you've gotten
the hang of what you learned in the training run and that you're working
safely enough that you should be allowed to operate the press unsupervised.
At some point soon, I'm hoping to send all the pledges a little blurb about
the press shop and see if there are more interested people. In the meantime,
if you have some time to devote to a training run in the next several weeks,
feel free to drop Len (tower@alum.mit.edu) e-mail and coordinate a mutually
convenient time (I'm mostly flexible).
Mitch
